All 11 Uses
console
in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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- Arthur followed him in nervously and was astonished to see a man lolling back in a chair with his feet on a control console picking the teeth in his right-hand head with his left hand.
Chpt 13 *console = controls (for electrical equipment)
- "Shut up!" said Zaphod, and snatching up a pencil sat down next to Trillian at the console.†
Chpt 12
- Pinpoints of light played across the consoles and reflected in four pairs of eyes that stared up at the external monitor screens.†
Chpt 14
- "I've found it!" cried Zaphod, thumping the console.†
Chpt 14
- Several large desk panels slid open and banks of control consoles sprang up out of them, showering the crew with bits of expanded polystyrene packaging and balls of rolled-up cellophane: these controls had never been used before.†
Chpt 17
- Ford's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy smashed into another section of the control console with the combined result that the Guide started to explain to anyone who cared to listen about the best ways of smuggling Antarean parakeet glands out of Antares (an Antarean parakeet gland stuck on a small stick is a revolting but much-sought-after cocktail delicacy and very large sums of money are often paid for them by very rich idiots who want to impress other very rich idiots), and the ship suddenly dropped out of the sky like a stone.†
Chpt 17
- Its main console was installed in a specially designed executive office, mounted on an enormous executive desk of finest ultramahogany topped with rich ultrared leather.†
Chpt 25
- Contemptuous lights flashed across the computer's console.†
Chpt 25
- There was a moment's expectant pause while panels slowly came to life on the front of the console.†
Chpt 27
- Suddenly Arthur began to feel his apparently nonexistent scalp begin to crawl as he found himself moving slowly but inexorably forward toward the console, but it was only a dramatic zoom on the part of whoever had made the recording, he assumed.†
Chpt 28
- The Computer console blotched and cracked, the walls flickered and crumbled and the room crashed upward into its own ceiling.... Slartibartfast was standing in front of Arthur holding the two wires.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(console as in: console her grief) to comfort (emotionally)
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(2)
(console as in: plug it into the console) controls or video monitor(s) for electrical equipment; or a cabinet made to hold electronic equipment
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, console can refer to a storage compartment between the bucket seats of a car.